Smyrna times., 1887-11-23

tight. P'iieo'ly d.
great crowd kept guard about it nj
InaG nlghU and through the next dav. in
ueeu IOr many days and nights afterward
Inc boys brought jars of water and oman
tltles OF toothsome things to eat from finn,
10 Ilme, through every day and night fol
long while, laying their Offering,
against the stone on which the priest haf
recorded, IN his mystic characters. thu
story and the time of the removal. wifi
) the prophecy of a return.
NOC yet, however, was the young class
leader ready to wake up and burst throuoh
his adamantine. covering. Hnngar Isl
break through stone wall There is q
tradition that this proverb originated then
anu there. Ono had been remarkable for
MS excellent appetite, and he would
PtoDaDIy come out pretty hungry. But
MS time was not vet
And so the years passed. The hove
grew old and left their own bodies to 6o
gathered into their graves, and tbe storv
Oh ono came at length to be known only
as tradition. Indeed, even the snot
sacred IN old times to Ono's ownership
came 10 be forgotten, for as the are crent
on the land got so covered over with
grand sculptured memorials, poor Ono,s
II tablet made no show at all. There
1 hnh
done their work well.
And Ono? Did he sleep? Not certainly
for long. The next he knew was the
touch of gentle hands. O. so pentIeI
surely he was awake. And how alive he
was IN all his sensesl 1t was as thOupb
anu now, the whirl and tumult of exist
ehce had deadened his perceptions to life's
realities. If he had thought of II r.
might have seemed unaccOuntable fbot
the people about him, though not his own
nolne1olk or his school fellows. he already
knew most intimately. They had been
close about him through his whole life
bGG he mad no consciousness of himself.
lie was simply absorbed in learning and
IN bringing his requirements into use
pun student, he had entered upon an
@uEduced course. Hitherto the surface
nad been all. Now what chaDters won
ders within wonders, were revealed in tbo
colnmonest things about himl The
smallest leaf, the tiniest insect-oll life
being of the spiritual world-now tbatb
eyes were opened, have written on them
treas res OF wisdom ineXhaustible. So
was ne made aware that in the processes
0I spiritual growth lives each minutest
uetall OF the actuating thought. 1t was
only, however, as his understanding he
came Illuminated by sweet affections and
only as he made knowledge of anvil Inv |
giving forth, that these wOndrous napes |
unIolded themselves before him.
Ferhaps he was intrusted with the con-
teylng OF suggestions to people in the ma
!erial world ii so, he did not reflect upon |
IT, LOT he never thought of himself ot
Ie''sU Oh the uses he performed. as an
Pc l'.zI Ginning 10 himself. fhe had specialized
upon WhaJ heaven might be Lke-be
never h1u-he could not have imagined an
existence more perfect in DELIGHT than his
genial and ceaseless occupation made for
him. maui lor
lie had been too busy to give n tbono,b+
10 mat last earthly experience Of his nm
Vi now, right in the heyday of his ioyous
activities, he was suddenly Overtai<cn Iv
IN uhaccountable stupor. l cannot saw
ne Iost himself. He had learned that
hoIhlng can be lost. But he seemed in
splred In his work by the restraints of
some clogging environment and his forces
called a halt. -OiOeS
Meanwhile, in those verv old +ir,os
though the human race was nc non,
sleaally advancing in enlightenment NO |
Oody dreamed OF the wonderful scripture
-htG was writing itself along the centuries
~ the worlds history. But the era had
loW come when this majestic truth stood
Or'I revealed, and everything of science
va. n''s Drought to bear in its interpretations.
- oOuuleu tne earth's strata, and a
.it'il1 prevailed tor bringing out into 4
ivllZatiOns. And so it came oboIt III a
N recent day party of eager Scientists
leclphered the unique inscription that re- ii
Orded Ono's experimental interment 4 Ii
ecord that proclaimed itself to have stood e
or more thirty centuries! But what y
mat was this? The savants-thev yvera
- men OF large brains, and every indi
ldual was quite an adept in analytical
interpretations = adjusted their plossos p
M compared their readings anew. They h
greed Here stood a promise, SO tbey e
udinilihously decipheTed it, uttered in no p
holguous terms-the transcriber had | m
cen IN earnest-a bold, straightforward m
'.'I aIoee Ihat when the time was ripe II
ne body inclosed within should be vital
ed anew. '4'''i- -
The wise men looked at each other md
niled, perhaps derisively. "Bnt Grains l,, n
ave retained their vitality in FrVDfion
-uhllny cases for thousands of vears -
INC one remarked. All the rest said >
lsnaWl But that was all. After n mo- IL
S = lHey grew graYep, Whatever subtle Ell
HueuCe had taken hold Of them they a,
eLnseIVes could not have told. Presently
ey stood with bated breath and snoI-e 4
" TO each other. They must EXPLORE IL
is thing. "a Pioie IL
1t would take long to detail how stor III
sCep, these scholars, with reverend IR
.ch ana tender, patient skill. not per- In
lung the Intervention Of anv bireIino IL
hu' removed this firm hermetic cover
Z. Ihere prevailed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
y might have been-no one spoke of II 81
u yec IN varying degrees it was partici 70
you ~ ny au-that, as they worked. A
-. ~ HOlu Ihelr hands and fill their 40
lis with a sense Of awed expectancv tx
And now at length the casket vas mn
ked and its treasure lay revealed-sin1-
sleeping boy. Surely not n snecta- salt
from which those learned men need e 5e
INK The pure, calm face suggested n 81
y creaUion awaiting the breath of life -
1eL IMAM legacy from the far pastI
q yet-it was an instinct they yould
nave analyzed-these wise. deep think
saSes pared their head and circled
lhd little way apart. Too near nrov-
ty might disturb the sanctity of that
ose., 10 touch it by a breath were
'ut never was center of interest oazed ~
WIN SUCH concentrated strained at
OAu Ohey count the seconds IL
llu take Tor contact with the outer mir
crumDle this fair outline into dusts IA
~ had no thought, no theory. no mower -
70 gaze on. They might have stood ~
re thus, spellbOHnd, for minutes on. for "a
RS. They never knew. What occnIt a
yer was this which had laid its hold A
N the very YOlition of those investi- agre
ors lmpelling that combined intensitv sstisNi
observation? AS they all afterwoTd -
;ribed 1t, there seemed to grow into
Z minds sense of kinship with tbiS
slation as they looked, and thew were 50
5clous OF an involuntary reaebin0
n, as 1t were, Of their matured vitoIjtS
'onslve TO a something Knocking NJ
o eye could free itself from that on
lllment' 10, and as they looked aid
dreamS Surely there was movement
pulses were astirl Light dawneJ
cred, lowered in fitful CLEANS uno3
passive facet 1t was there. preserved ~
ugh all the centuries, that mvsterr "a
'h psychologists define as the princinIo Al
eceptivity Of life. Il was a bnman
which had paralyzed its action. The
1etlsm OF that encircling human pres-
mad revivified it. Why, their hearts
warming to an actual boyish person-